MentionFox lists 678 Developer tools companies. Of them, 663 are Y Combinator companies (the newest batch here is Summer 2027, with 1); 12 filed a Form D notice with the SEC; 3 won an SBIR or STTR award.
Companies678
Y Combinator663
Form D filers12
SBIR/STTR winners3
By year
- 2026: 89 companies (76 Y Combinator, 12 Form D filers, 1 SBIR/STTR winner); median amount sold $1.6M across 12 Form D notices
- 2025: 82 companies (81 Y Combinator, 1 SBIR/STTR winner)
- 2024: 91 companies (90 Y Combinator, 1 SBIR/STTR winner)
- 2023: 79 companies (79 Y Combinator)
- 2022: 64 companies (64 Y Combinator)
- 2021: 83 companies (83 Y Combinator)
- 2020: 54 companies (54 Y Combinator)
Developer tools startups from other years
Companies from before 2020, or from a year with fewer than 15 of them. Every other year has its own full list, linked above.
| Company | What it does | Date | Amount | Round / stage | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memorable | Self-evolving workflows for AI agents | Summer 2027 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Aspect | Build UI fast. | Summer 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Bouncer | SDK for scanning and verifying credit cards and photo IDs in mobile… | Summer 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Bun | Bun is an incredibly fast all-in-one JavaScript toolkit | Summer 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Courier | The fastest way for developers to build notifications for their app. | Summer 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Deepnote | A better data science notebook. | Summer 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| FeaturePeek | Supercharged deployment previews for all. | Summer 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| GitStart | Pull Requests as a Service | Summer 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Hatchways | We make engineering interviewing look more like real work. | Summer 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| OpenReplay | Open-source, self-hosted, session replay tool for developers. | Summer 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| PopSQL | SQL editor for teams | Summer 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Rosebud AI | Vibe code games | Summer 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Rutter | The Unified API for Business Financial Data | Summer 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Wasmer | The Operating System for Edge Computing | Summer 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| zeroheight | The design system layer for coding agents | Summer 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Alpaca | API-first stock and crypto brokerage platform | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Avo | Fixing data quality in product analytics. | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Cosmic | Cosmic is an AI-powered headless CMS | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Dagger | Develop your CI/CD pipelines as code and run them anywhere | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Dockup | On demand ephemeral environments to run manual and automated tests. | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Doppler | Secure secrets | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Glide | Glide turns spreadsheets into beautiful, intelligent apps. | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Insight | The first extensible browser for iOS | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Memfault | First IoT reliability platform for debugging, monitoring, OTA updates | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Mobot | Mobot is a QA-as-a-service platform using actual mechanical robots | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Okteto | Cloud Development Environments with one click | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Preflight | No-code Web Apps testing for everyone | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Probably Genetic | Patient Intelligence Platform for Genetic Disease | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Rune | Talk & play multiplayer games with your friends! | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Sapling.ai | Language models for enterprise applications. | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Slapdash | Work at the speed of thought | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Supernova | Design system platform joins developers and designers together | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Termius | Termius is an SSH client with team collaboration features | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Visly | Build React components visually | Winter 2019 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Alpha Vantage | Developer-friendly and enterprise-grade APIs for financial market… | Summer 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Anima App | Anima - Design Agent | AgentGrid.io - Shared drive for humans & agents | Summer 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Berbix | Convert more verified users | Summer 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Cspa | The Computer Science Proficiency Assessment (CSPA™) is a… | Summer 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Culdesac | We build cities for people, not cars | Summer 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| DreamCraft Entertainment, Inc. | Platform that allows anyone to create and monetize video games. | Summer 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Duffel | The complete toolkit to sell travel. | Summer 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Modern Treasury | Payment operations tools for money movement. | Summer 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| OneGraph | GraphQL API to connect all of the internet's APIs | Summer 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Optic | Making APIs Developer-friendly | Summer 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| RevenueCat | Build and grow your app business | Summer 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| CodeStream | CodeStream is a Developer Collaboration Platform designed to… | Winter 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Draftbit | Build mobile apps visually | Winter 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Key Values | Helping software developers find teams that share their values | Winter 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| NewCraft | Universal API for HR & Payroll | Winter 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Replit | Collaborative in-browser IDE | Winter 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| YouTeam | We make it easy for startups to hire engineers. | Winter 2018 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| AssemblyAI | The best way to build Voice AI apps | Summer 2017 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Bloom Institute of Technology | The online coding school that invests in you. | Summer 2017 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| D-id | Enable creators and developers to generate realistic AI personas | Summer 2017 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Escher Reality | The backend for Augmented Reality. | Summer 2017 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Lyrebird | Our tech speaks for itself. | Summer 2017 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Plasticity | Natural language processing APIs for developers. | Summer 2017 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| PullRequest | Code review as a service - combining automation with a network of… | Summer 2017 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Templarbit | Protecting applications from malicious activity | Summer 2017 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Armory | Continuous Deployment at any scale, for all developers. | Winter 2017 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Bitrise | Hosted Continuous Integration and Delivery for mobile apps | Winter 2017 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| FastJVM | Making the JVM faster | Winter 2017 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| NanoNets | Automatic Data Extraction | Winter 2017 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| OneFin | Shopify for Financial Services | Winter 2017 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Retool | Build internal tools fast. | Winter 2017 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Scaphold.io | The Universal API | Winter 2017 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Veryfi, Inc. | Document AI | Winter 2017 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Bird | The world’s largest omnichannel communications platform | Summer 2016 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Expo | Expo brings together the best of web and native app development | Summer 2016 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Opsolutely | Automated deployments for software teams. | Summer 2016 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Vidcode | Coding for teens | Summer 2016 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Castle | Block bots & bad behavior | Winter 2016 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Daily | Conversational Voice and Multimodal AI built with Open Source | Winter 2016 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Deepgram | Building foundational AI for speech transcription and understanding. | Winter 2016 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| GitPrime | Visibility and analytics for software development leaders. | Winter 2016 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Mux | Video infrastructure for developers | Winter 2016 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Redspread | Version control for software environments | Winter 2016 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Thunkable | Thunkable is the no-code platform to build powerful native mobile apps | Winter 2016 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Bitmovin | Powers OTT online video providers with video developer tools. | Summer 2015 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Cloudstitch | Power your website with Google Spreadsheets.Acquired by Instabase… | Summer 2015 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Font Awesome | Icons and social logos for your website. | Summer 2015 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Gigster | Build and manage distributed teams | Summer 2015 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Heroic Labs | Social Infrastructure for Games; Makers of Nakama game server, Satori… | Summer 2015 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| SnapMagic | AI-assisted electronics design | Summer 2015 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| SourceDNA | Bringing transparency to the app stores and helping developers build… | Summer 2015 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Teleport | The Infrastructure Identity Company | Summer 2015 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Triplebyte | Intelligent technical hiring. | Summer 2015 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Zeplin | Deliver on the Promise of Design | Summer 2015 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Mezmo | Observability platform to control all of your log data | Winter 2015 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Moltin | eCommerce building blocks through simple APIs for websites & apps.… | Winter 2015 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Pachyderm | Data Versioning, Data Pipelines, and Data Lineage | Winter 2015 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Quantierra | Sourcing investment real estate | Winter 2015 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| ReadMe | Beautiful, personalized, interactive developer hubs | Winter 2015 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Sails Co. | Full-service web, mobile, & cloud studio providing professional… | Winter 2015 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Aptible | The No Infrastructure Platform as a Service | Summer 2014 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Checkr | People infrastructure for the future of work | Summer 2014 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Hyperpad | Create, Share, Play Mobile Games on the iPad. | Summer 2014 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| DevCycle | Feature Flag Management Built for Developers | Winter 2014 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Kimono Labs | Create APIs where they don't exist | Winter 2014 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Rickshaw | Same day local delivery, via API | Winter 2014 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Wit.ai | Natural Language for Developers --Wit is an API that makes it easy… | Winter 2014 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Apptimize | Apptimize lets mobile teams innovate faster to create an amazing user… | Summer 2013 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| CoreOS | Open source tools of modern distributed systems. | Summer 2013 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Estimote, Inc. | Location intelligence platform | Summer 2013 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Lob | Lob is the only automation platform that transforms direct mail into… | Summer 2013 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Standard Treasury | Banking APIs; acquired by Silicon Valley Bank in August 2015 | Summer 2013 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Bitnami | The App Store for Server Software | Winter 2013 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Coin | A mobile wallet that allows you to pay everywhere credit cards are… | Winter 2013 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Pixate | Mobile application prototyping | Summer 2012 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Rainforest | no-code end-to-end testing that integrates with any CI/CD pipeline | Summer 2012 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Authy | Authy is a Two-Factor Authentication platform for developers | Winter 2012 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Swiftype | Smart search for the modern team. | Winter 2012 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Apollo | Apollo helps engineering teams accelerate delivery | Summer 2011 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Clutch | An easy to integrate library for native iOS applications designed to… | Summer 2011 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Compose | We make it easy to run databases | Summer 2011 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Firebase | Build and grow iOS, Android, and Web apps. | Summer 2011 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| HackerRank | Change the world to value skills over pedigree | Summer 2011 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Imgix | The platform for your visual media. | Summer 2011 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| OneSignal | Engage customers through personalized omni-channel messaging | Summer 2011 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Parse | Parse is the easiest way to build apps. | Summer 2011 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Stypi | Realtime collaborative coding | Summer 2011 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Apportable | iOS porting | Winter 2011 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| DrChrono | The essential platform for modern medical practices and patients. | Winter 2011 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Mailgun | Email API service. | Winter 2011 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Sendoid | High speed peer to peer data transport technology for consumers… | Winter 2011 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Tumult | Tumult is building the next generation of apps for web design | Winter 2011 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Docker | Software development platform. | Summer 2010 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Simperium | Simplenote (simplenote.com) and the Simperium platform for syncing… | Summer 2010 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Zencoder | Video Encoding API, Open source video player (video.js) | Winter 2010 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Lockitron | Lockitron makes electronic locks you can control locally from your… | Summer 2009 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| RethinkDB | The open source database for the realtime web. | Summer 2009 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Heyzap | Heyzap (acquired by Fyber for $45m in 2016) is one of the largest… | Winter 2009 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Cloudant | NoSQL Database-aaS | Summer 2008 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Heroku | Enabling developers to build and run applications in the cloud. | Winter 2008 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| Ninite | Simple third-party app patching and deployment for Windows. | Winter 2008 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing | |
| RescueTime | Take Back Control of your Time | Winter 2008 | Y Combinator batch | Y Combinator listing |
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